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Habitus, dorsal view on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, dorsally (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, dorsally (OSUC). (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, laterally (OSUC). (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, pygofer, laterally (OSUC). (Observation).
Pygofer, dorsal view on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, pygofer and subgenital plates, dorsally (OSUC). (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, pygofer and subgentical plates, ventrally (OSUC). (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, aedeagus, laterally (OSUC). (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, aedeagus, caudally (OSUC). (Observation).
Connective on Paracrassana Nielson, 1988: Paracrassana nigrifrons, holotype, connective and stylus, ventrally (OSUC). (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Paracrassana Nielson, 1988b: 132.

    type species by original designation Idiodonus nigrifrons DeLong, 1983

  • Paracrassana Nielson, 1988 (classified as Athysanini Van Duzee, 1892) in Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013a: 43.
  • Paracrassana Nielson, 1988 (classified as Platymetopiinae Haupt, 1929) in Zahniser, Dietrich, Cao, Dmitriev & Pinedo-Escatel, 2026: 26.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Nielson, M.W. (1988b) Colladonus and related genera of Mexico and Central America with new taxa and synonymy (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, 12, 103–134.
  • Zahniser, J.N. & Dietrich, C.H. (2013a) A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 45, 1–211. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.45
  • Zahniser, J.N., Dietrich, C.H., Cao, Y.-H., Dmitriev, D.A. & Pinedo-Escatel, J.A. (2026) New tribal placements, reinstatements and synonymies in the leafhopper subfamily Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 1035, 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1035.3171

Type

type species by original designation of Paracrassana Nielson, 1988

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Greek: παρά (near) + Crassana

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1001
Species1012